Garment-hook eye.



G. W. STEVENS, JR, GARMENT HOOK'EYE.

APPLICATION FILED 00T,17.1906. v

Mtnesses= PATENTBD JUNE 18, 1907.

In veniof W fiarfaswia/msh By his Attorne A ENrrED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. STEVENS, JR, or NEW BR NSWIoK, NEW JERSEY. j;

GARMENT-HOOK. EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1907.

Application filed October 17,1906. Serial No. 339,304.

To aIZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. STEVENS, Jr, a citizen of the United States, residing in New Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hook Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment-hook eyes such as are adapted in operation to coact with a garment hook and form a hook and eye fastening. And an object of the invention is to provide an improved construction, and more particularly for affording the better securement of the eye to the garment, whereby, although its hook engaging portion is relatively near the edge of the garment yet it may be sewn to the garment at a sufficient distance from its edge to afford a substantial support, and may also be sewn to the garment at a point near the edge thereof, and near the hook engaging portion.

An eye made according to the present improvement will have means of securement disposed at varying distances from the line of normal engagement between the eye and the garment hook, and there will be means of se curement, as for instance eyes, at a distance from the hook engaging portion, which eyes may be sewn to the garment at a distance from the edge, sufficient, when the fabric is of a frail nature, to afford a substantial support and prevent pulling out and distorting the fabric, and additional securing means, as for instance an additional eye, located at a distance from the other eyes, and which may be sewn. to the garment nearer the edge. This additional fastening device will maintain the eye at the proper distance from the surface of the fabric to which it is applied, thus preventing the flattening down of the eye upon the fabric which would impede the engagement of the hook with the eye; but when the eye is held at the proper distance from the fabric the hooking or engagement will be facilitated. This additional fastening device will also prevent the eye from being raised from the surface of the garment, which raising would permit the opening of the garment to gap in an unsightly manner. And the additional fastening device also prevents the twisting of the eye upon the fabric, which twisting would produce disalinement of the two sides of the garment.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a top view of a form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a section thereof on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view-of an eye of the form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 in conjunction with a hook. Figs. 4 and. 5 are views similar to Figs. 1 and 2, but showing the debeing taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a side view of the eye shown in Figs. 4 and 5 in conjunction with a hook; and Fig. 7 shows a hook and eye sewn upon a garment.

The eye will in many instances be bent up from a single piece of wire and is illustrated in Fig. 1 as having a hook engaging portion 7 of some suitable shape, which in the present illustration is shown as substantially straight and from which side arms 8' extend .rearwardly, which side arms are bent into sewing eyes 9. The wire continues at 10 from one of the eyes and ends ina forwardly disposed sewing eye 11, which in the Figs.

1 and 2- is shown as located between the side arms and slightly rearwardly and below the plane of the hook engaging portion 7 In Fig. 1, the hook engaging portion 7 is shown substantially straight, and the securing eye is shown having a straight portion which is substantially parallel with the hook engaging portion. In this instance, the securing eye 11 is smaller than the eye formed by the hook engaging portion 7 and the side arms 8,which side arms diverge outwardly prior to being continued into the hook engaging portion 7. The securing eye 11 is exposed through the hook engaging eye formed by the Side arms 8 and the hook engaging portion 7, and in such a position that the sewing of the securing eye 11 to the garment may be efiected through the hook engaging eye. By having a portion of the securing eye 11 arranged parallel to the hook engaging portion 7, the securing eye may be sewn to the edge of the garment, which will then bring the hook engaging portion 7 parallel with the edge of the garment which is quite useful when hooks such as are illustrated in Fig. 3 are employed.

In Figs. 4 and 5, however, the wire after forming the eye and extending forwardly in the portion 10 ends in an eye 11 disposed 'vice with slightly different formation, Fig. 5 Y

forwardly and below the plane of the hook IIO ing nearer the edge than the hook engaging portion.

By reference to Figs. 3 and 7, it will be seen inwhat manner the present improvement is capable of employment with a hook, des ignated in a general way by 12, and which hook may be such a hook as is illustrated in the re-issue United States Letters Patent to Rutherford C. Haven, N 0. 12,451, re-issued Feb. 13, 1906. By reference to' Fig. 7 it will be seen that there are two sides of a garment 14 and 15, to the portion 14 of which is socured such a hook as is above alluded to, the third or forward eye 17 of which is sewn adj acent to the edge 140 of the garment, and the forward securing eye 11 of the hook-eye is secured. adjacent to the edge 150 of the side 15 of the garment. It will be seen that in this position there is ample room for the hook 16 to pass between the engaging portion 7 and the securing eye 11.

Each of the members of the hook and eye, that is the hook portion and the eye portion, is secured to the garment by sewing adjacent to its edge, and when strain is put upon-the hook and eye, the tendency will be for the hook to drawthe eye toward the edge 150 of the portion, as 15, of the garment upon which it is carried, and for the eye to draw the hook toward the edge 140 of the side 14 of the garment carrying the hook. But since the securing eye 1 1 of the eye member is secured by sewing to the edge 150 of that side of the garment and the hook h as its forward eye 17 secured by sewing to the edge 140 of that side of the garment, the strain upon each of the members is brought out to the edge of the garment, and consequently the tendency of the garment to open under strain is counteracted; as the extreme edges of the garment are closely united to the hook and eye members by the forward eye, the tendency of the cloth when under strain to distort, and thereby to separate the edges thereof, is practically obviated. In the present illustration both the hook and the eye are represented as sewn upon the inside of the garment. By

this means a close joining of the edges will be had without any overlapping. It will also be seen in this view that when the hook and hook-eye are in proper fastened position. that there is an interlocking. The securing eyes 11 and 17 practically abut one with the other so-that when the garment becomes loose and there is some pressure applied to it, as for instance when the wearer leans against the back of a chair, the tendency existing in the resent form of hooks and eyes to become unfastened will not here exist owing to the interrelation of the parts.

The front eye 11 will materially assist in the proper location of the eyes upon the garment relatively to its edge. It frequently happens when hook eyes are being sewn upon the garment that these will be placed on crookedly; but if the person sewing on this present form of hook eye first sews the front eye 11 to the edge ofthe garment the hook eye will then be held in proper position for the rearward securing eyes 9 to be sewn fast. This not only will assist in the proper positioning of each eye but will also enable greater uniformity to be observed in placing the entire set of eyes upon the garment relatively to its edge.

Having described my invention I claim:

A garment-hook eye comprised of wire bent into shape, having securing eyes at one end, side arms extending from said eyes and diverging at the other end, and a straight portion connecting the said side arms for forming a hook engaging eye, said wire extending between said arms from the portion forming one of the said securing eyes and ending in an attaching eye smaller than said hook engaging eye and having a straight portion parallel with the hook engaging portion of the saidhook engaging eye.

Signed at Nos. 915 Murray street, New York, N. Y., this 3d day of October, 1906. CHARLES W. STEVENS, JR. Witnesses:

CHAS. LYON RUssELL. F. E. BOYCE. 

